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Meaning of cautes | Babel Free

Noun feminine CEFR B1

Definitions

a rough, craggy or pointed rock, or cliff; rock, crag

declension-3

Examples

““… sed dūrīs genuit tē cautibus horrēns / Caucasus, Hyrcānaeque admōrunt ūbera tigrēs.” “But the hard, horrible Caucasus bore you on [its] jagged cliffs, and Hyrcanian tigresses took you to their teats.” (Dido portrays Aeneas as being hard-hearted and inhuman. Syncopation: admorunt = admoverunt.)”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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See also

cauti cautibus cautim cautio cautione cautionem

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